September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 106 days remain until the end of the year.

• 681 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
• 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.

• 1620 – Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower.^[1]
• 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father, James II.^[2]
• 1732 – In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American forces win the Battle of Harlem Heights after General George Washington orders a counterattack on advancing British light infantry.^[3]
• 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
• 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
• 1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence.^[4]
• 1863 – Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
• 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.
• 1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.

• 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
• 1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
• 1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
• 1940 – World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
• 1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
• 1945 – World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
• 1953 – American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.^[5]
• 1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
• 1955 – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
• 1956 – TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
• 1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
• 1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
• 1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• 1961 – Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
• 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore is soon expelled from this new country.
• 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
• 1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.
• 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
• 1975 – Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
• 1975 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
• 1976 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
• 1976 – Night of the Pencils: In the city of La Plata, Argentina, a group of high-school students were kidnapped and later tortured, raped and murdered during the Argentinian military dictatorship ^[6]
• 1978 – The 7.4 M_w Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people are killed.
• 1979 – Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
• 1982 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
• 1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
• 1990 – The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
• 1992 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
• 1992 – Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
• 1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
• 1996 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-79 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.^[7]
• 2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
• 2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
• 2007 – One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
• 2007 – Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
• 2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.^[8]
• 2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
• 2015 – A 8.3 M_w earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.^[9]
• 2021 – A 6.0 M_w earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.^[10]
• 2021 – Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.^[11]
• 2022 – During the Let Yet Kone massacre, the Burmese military kills 13 villagers, including eight children, after attacking a school in Sagaing Region, Myanmar.^[12]
• 2022 – The death of Mahsa Amini occurred in Tehran, Iran, sparking worldwide protests.^[13]

• AD 16 – Julia Drusilla, Roman daughter of Germanicus (died 38)
• 508 – Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang dynasty (died 555)
• 1295 – Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (died 1360)^[14]
• 1386 – Henry V of England (died 1422)^[15]
• 1462 – Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (died 1525)^[16]
• 1507 – Jiajing Emperor of China (died 1567)
• 1541 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died 1576)
• 1557 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (died 1627)

• 1615 – Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (died 1692)
• 1625 – Gregorio Barbarigo, Roman Catholic saint (died 1697)
• 1651 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and botanist (died 1716)
• 1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (died 1716)
• 1678 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1751)
• 1716 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian tenor and actor (died 1798)
• 1722 – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-Canadian general (died 1799)
• 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist, zoologist, and author (died 1815)
• 1745 – Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (died 1813)^[17]
• 1777 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (died 1836)
• 1782 – Daoguang Emperor of China (died 1850)
• 1812 – Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist (died 1886)^[18]
• 1822 – Charles Crocker, American businessman (died 1888)^[19]
• 1823 – Francis Parkman, American historian and author (died 1893)
• 1823 – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (died 1895)^[20]
• 1827 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and paleontologist (died 1908)
• 1828 – Per Pålsson, Swedish murderer (died 1914)
• 1830 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (died 1911)
• 1837 – Pedro V of Portugal (died 1861)
• 1838 – James J. Hill, Canadian-American railroad executive (died 1916)
• 1844 – Paul Taffanel, French flute player and conductor (died 1908)
• 1846 – Anna Kingsford, English author, poet, and activist (died 1888)
• 1853 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1927)
• 1858 – Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (died 1927)
• 1858 – Bonar Law, Canadian-Scottish banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1923)
• 1859 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, President of the Republic of China (died 1916)
• 1861 – Miriam Benjamin, African-American educator and inventor (died 1947)
• 1866 – Georg Voigt, German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (died 1927)
• 1870 – John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (died 1958)
• 1875 – James Cash Penney, American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (died 1971)
• 1876 – Marvin Hart, American boxer (died 1931)
• 1877 – Jacob Schick, American-Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Schick Razors (died 1937)
• 1878 – Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (died 1961)
• 1880 – Clara Ayres, American nurse (died 1917)
• 1880 – Alfred Noyes, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1958)
• 1881 – Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (died 1964)
• 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic (died 1917)
• 1886 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (died 1966)
• 1887 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (died 1979)^[21]
• 1888 – W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (died 1971)
• 1888 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
• 1890 – Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (died 1970)
• 1891 – Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany (died 1980)
• 1891 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (died 1972)
• 1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1956)
• 1893 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)^[22]
• 1895 – Zainal Abidin Ahmad, Malaysian author and scholar (died 1973)
• 1897 – Milt Franklyn, American composer (died 1962)
• 1898 – H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George (died 1977)
• 1899 – Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (died 1975)

• 1901 – Josef Schächter, Austrian rabbi and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1994)
• 1905 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (died 1980)
• 1906 – Jack Churchill, Sri Lankan-British colonel (died 1996)
• 1910 – Erich Kempka, German colonel and chauffeur (died 1975)
• 1910 – Karl Kling, German race car driver and manager (died 2003)
• 1911 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and author (died 1983)
• 1911 – Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer (died 2005)
• 1914 – Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)
• 1915 – Cy Walter, American pianist (died 1968)
• 1916 – Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (died 1978)
• 1916 – Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman (died 1985)
• 1916 – M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian Carnatic vocalist (died 2004)
• 1916 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician (died 1999)
• 1916 – Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (died 1973)^[23]
• 1916 – Raosaheb Gogte, Indian industrialist (died 2000)^[24]
• 1918 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (died 1968)
• 1919 – Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster (died 2015)
• 1919 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator (died 1990)
• 1919 – Andy Russell, American singer and actor (died 1992)
• 1920 – Staryl C. Austin, American air force general (died 2015)
• 1920 – Sheila Quinn, English nurse and educator (died 2016)
• 1920 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (died 1991)
• 1921 – Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian metallurgist (died 2016)
• 1921 – Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter (died 2017)
• 1921 – Korla Pandit, American pianist and composer (died 1998)
• 1922 – Guy Hamilton, French-English director and screenwriter (died 2016)
• 1922 – Janis Paige, American actress and singer (died 2024)^[25][26]
• 1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (died 2015)
• 1924 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (died 2014)^[27]
• 1924 – Raoul Coutard, French cinematographer and director (died 2016)^[28]
• 1925 – Charlie Byrd, American singer and guitarist (died 1999)
• 1925 – Charles Haughey, Irish accountant, lawyer, and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2006)
• 1925 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2015)^[27]
• 1926 – Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian pianist and composer (died 2011)
• 1926 – John Knowles, American novelist (died 2001)
• 1926 – Roger McKee, American baseball player (died 2014)
• 1926 – Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author (died 2015)
• 1927 – Peter Falk, American actor (died 2011)^[27]
• 1927 – Jack Kelly, American actor and politician (died 1992)^[27]
• 1927 – Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic and diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (died 2019)
• 1928 – Rex Trailer, American television host, actor, and singer (died 2013)
• 1928 – Lady Gwen Thompson, English author and educator (died 1986)
• 1928 – Patricia Wald, American judge (died 2019)
• 1929 – Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, last sultan of Zanzibar (died 2024)
• 1929 – Stan Stephens, Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (died 2021)
• 1930 – Anne Francis, American actress (died 2011)^[27]
• 1931 – K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (died 2003)
• 1931 – Little Willie Littlefield, American-Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2013)
• 1932 – George Chakiris, American actor^[25]
• 1932 – Micky Stewart, English cricketer and coach
• 1933 – Steve Shirley, German-English businesswoman and philanthropist, founded Xansa
• 1934 – Elgin Baylor, American basketball player and coach (died 2021)^[27]
• 1934 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)
• 1935 – Carl Andre, American sculptor (died 2024)
• 1935 – Billy Boy Arnold, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1935 – Jules Bass, American director, producer, composer, and author (died 2022)^[29]
• 1935 – Lilia Cuntapay, Filipino actress (died 2016)^[30][31]
• 1935 – Bob Kiley, American-English businessman (died 2016)
• 1935 – Esther Vilar, Argentinian-German author and playwright^[32]
• 1935 – Helen Williams, American fashion model (died 2023)^[33]
• 1937 – Aleksandr Medved, Russian wrestler (died 2024)
• 1937 – Vince Naimoli, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2019)
• 1939 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter (died 2024)^[34]
• 1939 – Bill McGill, American basketball player (died 2014)
• 1940 – Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist and composer (died 2018)
• 1940 – Butch Buchholz, American tennis player
• 1940 – Paul White, Baron Hanningfield, British life peer (died 2024)^[35]
• 1941 – Joe Butler, American singer, autoharp player, and drummer
• 1941 – Richard Perle, American political scientist and politician
• 1942 – Bernie Calvert, English bass player and keyboard player
• 1942 – Susan L. Graham, American computer scientist and academic
• 1943 – Wang Houjun, Chinese footballer and manager (died 2012)
• 1943 – James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (died 2016)
• 1944 – Linda Kaye Henning, American actress
• 1944 – Betty Kelly, American soul/R&B singer^[25]
• 1946 – Sonny LeMaire, American country music singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1946 – Mike Reynolds, Australian lawyer and politician
• 1946 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer (died 2019)
• 1947 – Dusty Hughes, English director and playwright
• 1948 – Ron Blair, American bass player
• 1948 – Rosemary Casals, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1948 – Julia Donaldson, English author and playwright
• 1948 – Kenney Jones, English drummer^[25]
• 1948 – Susan Ruttan, American actress^[25]
• 1949 – Ed Begley Jr., American actor and environmental activist^[25]
• 1950 – David Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[25]
• 1950 – Henry Louis Gates Jr., American historian, scholar, and journalist
• 1950 – Loyd Grossman, American-English singer, guitarist, and television host
• 1951 – Vince Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 – Andy Irvine, Scottish rugby player and coach
• 1951 – Cornelius Sim, Bruneian cardinal^[36] (died 2021)
• 1952 – Tony Cunningham, English educator and politician
• 1952 – Česlovas Laurinavičius, Lithuanian historian
• 1952 – Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician (died 2013)
• 1952 – Mickey Rourke, American boxer and actor^[25]
• 1953 – Kurt Fuller, American character actor
• 1953 – Alan Barton, English singer and guitarist (died 1995)
• 1953 – Nancy Huston, Canadian-American author and translator
• 1953 – Earl Klugh, American musician^[25]
• 1953 – Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown, English journalist and politician, 2nd Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1953 – Jerry Pate, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1953 – Manuel Pellegrini, Chilean footballer and manager
• 1953 – Christopher Rich, American actor^[25]
• 1953 – Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1954 – Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Indian sitar player and composer
• 1954 – William McKeen, American author and academic
• 1954 – Colin Newman, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1954 – Frank Reed, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
• 1954 – Roger Woolley, Australian cricketer
• 1955 – Ron Brewer, American basketball player
• 1955 – Robin Yount, American baseball player and coach^[27]
• 1956 – Maggie Atkinson, English educator and civil servant
• 1956 – David Copperfield, American magician and actor^[25]
• 1956 – Ross Greenberg, American journalist and antivirus pioneer (died 2017)
• 1956 – Dave Schulthise, American bass player (died 2004)
• 1956 – Kazuharu Sonoda, Japanese wrestler (died 1987)
• 1957 – D. C. Drake, American wrestler
• 1957 – Clara Furse, English businesswoman
• 1957 – Norman Lamb, English lawyer and politician
• 1957 – David McCreery, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1957 – Anca Parghel, Romanian singer and pianist (died 2008)
• 1958 – Orel Hershiser, American baseball player and coach
• 1958 – Neville Southall, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1958 – Jennifer Tilly, American actress and poker player^[25]
• 1959 – Peter Keleghan, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1959 – Tim Raines, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1959 – Dave Richardson, South African cricketer, manager, and lawyer
• 1959 – Victory Tischler-Blue, American bass player, director, and producer
• 1960 – Jayne Brook, American actress^[25]
• 1960 – Graham Haynes, American trumpet player and composer
• 1960 – Mike Mignola, American author and illustrator
• 1961 – Bilinda Butcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – Philip Lafon, Canadian wrestler
• 1961 – Annamária Szalai, Hungarian journalist, economist, and politician (died 2013)
• 1962 – Seth, Canadian author and illustrator
• 1963 – Richard Marx, American singer-songwriter and producer^[25]
• 1964 – Mary Coustas, Australian actress and screenwriter
• 1964 – Rossy de Palma, Spanish-French model and actress
• 1964 – Dave Sabo, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1964 – Molly Shannon, American actress, comedian and producer^[25]
• 1965 – Katy Kurtzman, American actress and producer
• 1965 – Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer and manager
• 1965 – Stephen Shareaux, American singer-songwriter
• 1966 – John Bel Edwards, American attorney and politician
• 1966 – Wil McCarthy, American author and playwright
• 1966 – Kevin Young, American hurdler
• 1967 – Hiroya Oku, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1967 – Damon Thayer, Kentucky State Senate Majority Leader^[37]
• 1968 – Marc Anthony, American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer^[25]
• 1968 – Walt Becker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Tommy Keane, Irish footballer (died 2012)
• 1969 – Justine Frischmann, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Janno Gibbs, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
• 1970 – Mark Schultz, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Joel Heyman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Charlie Jacobs, American businessman
• 1971 – Amy Poehler, American actress, comedian, and producer^[25]
• 1971 – Richard Slinger, American wrestler
• 1971 – Shawntel Smith, American beauty pageant contestant
• 1972 – Mark Bruener, American football player
• 1972 – Mike Doyle, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Alessandro Nunziati, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1973 – George Corrie, English footballer
• 1973 – Camiel Eurlings, Dutch businessman and member of the International Olympic Committee
• 1973 – Justin Haythe, American author and screenwriter
• 1973 – Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist and manager
• 1974 – Loona, Dutch singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1974 – Monique Brumby, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1974 – Joaquin Castro, American lawyer and politician
• 1974 – Julian Castro, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• 1975 – Jason Leffler, American race car driver (died 2013)
• 1975 – Shannon Noll, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Toks Olagundoye, Nigerian actress^[25]
• 1976 – Elīna Garanča, Latvian soprano
• 1976 – Tina Barrett, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1976 – Greg Buckner, American basketball player and coach
• 1977 – Gregory Ball, American captain and politician
• 1977 – Musiq Soulchild, American singer-songwriter^[25]
• 1978 – Dan Dickau, American basketball player and coach
• 1978 – Claudia Marx, German runner
• 1978 – Sensei, Mexican wrestler
• 1978 – Brian Sims, American lawyer, politician, and LGBT activist
• 1979 – Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
• 1979 – Flo Rida, American rapper, singer, and songwriter^[25]
• 1980 – Kenny van Weeghel, Dutch wheelchair racer
• 1981 – Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress, singer, and producer^[27]
• 1981 – Alexis Bledel, American actress^[25]
• 1981 – LaVerne Jones-Ferrette, Virgin Islander sprinter
• 1982 – Leon Knight, English footballer
• 1982 – Michele Rizzo, Italian rugby player
• 1983 – John Afoa, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Katerine Avgoustakis, Belgian singer and pianist
• 1983 – Jennifer Blake, Canadian wrestler
• 1983 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer and 10th President of the International Olympic Committee
• 1983 – Brandon Moss, American baseball player
• 1984 – Sabrina Bryan, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress^[25]
• 1984 – Katie Melua, Georgian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1985 – Matt Harrison, American baseball player^[38]
• 1985 – Max Minghella, English actor
• 1985 – Madeline Zima, American actress^[25]
• 1986 – Gordon Beckham, American baseball player
• 1986 – Ian Harding, American actor^[25]
• 1986 – Kyla Pratt, American actress and singer^[25]
• 1987 – Merve Boluğur, Turkish actress
• 1987 – Kyle Lafferty, Northern Irish footballer
• 1987 – Louis Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian footballer
• 1987 – Anthony Padilla, American internet personality and filmmaker^[39]
• 1987 – Burry Stander, South African cyclist (died 2013)
• 1987 – Travis Wall, American dancer and choreographer
• 1988 – Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress^[25]
• 1989 – Robbie Grossman, American baseball player^[40]
• 1989 – Braden Holtby, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Salomón Rondón, Venezuelan footballer
• 1989 – Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Alexandra Paul, Canadian figure skater (died 2023)
• 1992 – Vytenis Čižauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1992 – Nick Jonas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[25]
• 1992 – Jake Roche, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1992 – Chase Stokes, American actor^[27]
• 1993 – Metro Boomin, American record producer and songwriter^[41]
• 1993 – Sam Byram, English footballer
• 1993 – Bryson DeChambeau, American golfer^[42]
• 1993 – Joji, Japanese-Australian singer-songwriter^[43]
• 1994 – Anthony Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player^[44]
• 1994 – Aleksandar Mitrović, Serbian footballer^[45]
• 1994 – Mitchell Moses, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 – Aaron Gordon, American basketball player^[46]
• 1997 – Clint Ratkovich, American football player^[47]
• 1997 – Anairis Quiñones, American voice actress^[48]
• 1997 – Jackie Young, American basketball player^[49]
• 1999 – Brady Tkachuk, American ice hockey player^[50]
• 2000 – Sam Howell, American football player^[51]
• 2000 – Oliver Skipp, English footballer^[52]
• 2001 – Avishag Semberg, Israeli Olympic taekwondo bronze medalist^[53]
• 2003 – Toby Couchman, Australian rugby league player^[54]

• 307 – Flavius Valerius Severus, Roman emperor
• 655 – Pope Martin I
• 1087 – Pope Victor III (born 1026)
• 1100 – Bernold of Constance, German priest and historian (born 1054)
• 1122 – Vitalis of Savigny, Catholic French saint and itinerant preacher (born 1060)^[55]
• 1226 – Pandulf Verraccio, Roman ecclesiastical politician
• 1343 – Philip III of Navarre (born 1306)
• 1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (born 1295)
• 1360 – William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (born 1319)
• 1380 – Charles V of France (born 1338)
• 1394 – Antipope Clement VII (born 1342)
• 1406 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (born 1336)
• 1498 – Tomás de Torquemada, Spanish friar (born 1420)
• 1581 – Peter Niers, notorious German bandit (date of birth unknown)
• 1583 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (born 1526)
• 1589 – Michael Baius, Belgian theologian and academic (born 1513)

• 1607 – Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (born 1605)
• 1672 – Anne Bradstreet, English poet (born 1612)
• 1701 – James II of England (born 1633)
• 1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (born 1686)
• 1792 – Nguyễn Huệ, Vietnamese emperor (born 1753)
• 1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (born 1754)
• 1819 – John Jeffries, American physician and surgeon (born 1744)
• 1824 – Louis XVIII of France (born 1755)
• 1843 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1770)
• 1845 – Thomas Davis, Irish poet and publisher (born 1814)
• 1865 – Christian de Meza, Danish general (born 1792)
• 1887 – Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (born 1841)
• 1896 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (born 1836)
• 1896 – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (born 1814)
• 1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (born 1827)

• 1911 – Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (born 1840)
• 1914 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (born 1843)
• 1919 – Maria Nikiforova, Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader (born 1885)^[56]
• 1925 – Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (born 1873)
• 1925 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1888)
• 1931 – Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (born 1862)
• 1932 – Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (born 1908)
• 1932 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
• 1933 – George Gore, American baseball player and manager (born 1857)
• 1936 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (born 1867)
• 1940 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (born 1860)
• 1944 – Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (born 1870)
• 1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (born 1884)
• 1946 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1877)
• 1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (born 1881)
• 1955 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1873)
• 1961 – Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (born 1915)
• 1961 – Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1910)
• 1965 – Ahn Eak-tai, North Korean composer and conductor (born 1906)
• 1965 – Fred Quimby, American animator and producer (born 1886)
• 1973 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (born 1932)
• 1976 – Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (born 1894)
• 1977 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)
• 1977 – Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano (born 1923)
• 1980 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (born 1896)
• 1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (born 1897)
• 1984 – Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (born 1935)
• 1987 – Christopher Soames, English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (born 1920)
• 1991 – Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (born 1895)
• 1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (born 1910)
• 1993 – František Jílek, Czech conductor (born 1913)
• 1993 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (born 1920)
• 1996 – McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (born 1919)
• 1996 – Gene Nelson, American actor, dancer, and director (born 1920)
• 2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American producer (born 1918)
• 2002 – James Gregory, American actor (born 1911)
• 2003 – Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter (born 1921)
• 2004 – Michael Donaghy, American-English poet and author (born 1954)
• 2005 – Harry Freedman, Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (born 1922)
• 2005 – Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (born 1920)
• 2006 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1925)
• 2006 – Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (born 1924)^[57]
• 2007 – Robert Jordan, American engineer and author (born 1948)
• 2008 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (born 1940)
• 2009 – Myles Brand, American philosopher and academic (born 1942)
• 2009 – Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (born 1921)
• 2009 – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (born 1936)
• 2010 – George N. Parks, American educator and bandleader (born 1953)
• 2010 – Jim Towers, English footballer (born 1933)
• 2011 – Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and drummer (born 1936)
• 2011 – Enamul Haque Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)
• 2012 – Roman Kroitor, Canadian director and producer, co-founded IMAX (born 1926)
• 2012 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (born 1923)
• 2012 – Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (born 1925)
• 2013 – Scott Adams, American football player (born 1966)
• 2013 – Ratiba El-Hefny, Egyptian soprano and director (born 1931)
• 2013 – Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (born 1927)
• 2015 – Guy Béart, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (born 1930)
• 2015 – Julio Brady, Virgin Islander lawyer, judge, and politician, 5th Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (born 1942)
• 2015 – Kurt Oppelt, Austrian figure skater and coach (born 1932)
• 2015 – Allan Wright, English captain and pilot (born 1920)
• 2016 – Tarık Akan, Turkish actor, director and activist (born 1949)^[58]
• 2016 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (born 1928)
• 2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (born 1925)
• 2016 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)
• 2016 – W. P. Kinsella, Canadian novelist (born 1935)
• 2016 – Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, French-born American businessman (born 1932)
• 2016 – António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cabo Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde (born 1944)
• 2017 – Marcelo Rezende, Brazilian journalist (born 1951)
• 2017 – Arjan Singh, Marshal of the Indian Air Force (born 1919)
• 2018 – James Burdette Thayer, American brigadier general (born 1920)
• 2019 – H. S. Dillon, Indonesian politician and human rights defender (born 1945)
• 2020 – Maxim Martsinkevich, Russian social activist and media personality (born 1984)^[59]
• 2021 – Jane Powell, American actress (born 1929)^[60]
• 2021 – Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor (born 1940)^[61]
• 2024 – Song Binbin, Chinese revolutionary (born 1947)^[62]
• 2025 – Robert Redford, American actor, producer and director (born 1936)^[63][64]

• Christian feast day:
  • Curcodomus
  • Cyprian (Catholic Church)
  • Edith of Wilton
  • Euphemia
  • Ludmila
  • Ninian
  • Pope Cornelius
  • Vitalis of Savigny
  • September 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
• Cry of Dolores, celebrates the declaration of independence of Mexico from Spain in 1810. See Fiestas Patrias
• Independence Day (Papua New Guinea), celebrates the independence of Papua New Guinea from Australia in 1975.
• International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer^[65]
• Malaysian Armed Forces Day (Malaysia)
• Malaysia Day (Malaysia)
• Martyrs' Day (Libya)
• National Heroes Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)